Patent application number | Description | Published |
20090196449 | WIRELESS AUDIO SIGNAL RECEIVER DEVICE FOR A HEARING INSTRUMENT - A receiver device for receiving audio signals from a remote source has a magnetic loop antenna for receiving radio frequency signals carrying audio signals, a signal processing unit for reproducing audio signals from the radio frequency signals received by the antenna, an output interface which is capable of being mechanically connected to an input interface of a hearing instrument to be worn at a user's ear in order to supply the audio signals from the signal processing unit as input to the hearing instrument, and a housing enclosing the antenna and the signal processing unit. The antenna is designed as a printed board circuit with a loop-shaped conductor on an at least partially flexible insulating substrate. A first portion defines a first plane and a second portion defines a second plane, the first plane and second planes being oriented at an angle of 60° to 120° relative to each other. | 08-06-2009 |
20090197562 | WIRELESS AUDIO SIGNAL RECEIVER DEVICE FOR A HEARING INSTRUMENT - A receiver device for receiving audio signals from a remote source has a magnetic loop antenna for receiving radio frequency signals carrying audio signals, a signal processing unit for reproducing audio signals from the radio frequency signals received by the antenna, an output interface which is capable of being mechanically connected to an input interface of a hearing instrument to be worn at a user's ear in order to supply the audio signals from the signal processing unit as input to the hearing instrument, and a housing enclosing the antenna and the signal processing unit. The antenna is designed as a printed board circuit with a loop-shaped conductor on an at least partially flexible insulating substrate. A first portion defines a first plane and a second portion defines a second plane, the first plane and second planes being oriented at an angle of 60° to 120° relative to each other. | 08-06-2009 |
20100119077 | ACTIVE HEARING PROTECTION SYSTEM - An active hearing protecting system right earplug and a left earplug and a wearable central unit to be worn at the user's body a digital audio signal processing unit which has at least two channels and which can be connected via an audio input to an external audio signal source each earplug including a microphone and a loudspeaker which are connected to the audio signal processing unit. The central unit also has a detector for detecting audio signals and being adapted to control the audio signal processing unit when audio signal is detected. The audio signal processing unit has an ambient mode in which the audio signals captured by the left ear microphone are provided to the left ear loudspeaker and the audio signals captured by the right ear microphone are provided to the right ear loudspeaker, and a communication mode in which the audio signals from the audio input are provided at least one of the loudspeakers and audio signals captured by at least one of the microphones are provided to the other ear loudspeaker. | 05-13-2010 |
20100135512 | WIRELESS COMMUNICATION SYSTEM - A communication system having at least one user worn receiver unit for receiving audio signals via a wireless audio link connected to a stimulating means for stimulating the user's hearing according to audio signals received via the audio link; and a plurality of user worn transmission units and a microphone arrangement for capturing audio signals from the respective user's voice, an audio signal transmission portion for establishing the wireless audio link to at least one receiver unit to transmit the captured audio signals to the at least one receiver unit, an assistive digital link transceiver portion for establishing a bidirectional assistive digital link to at least one of the other transmission units and/or to an external command unit, and a control unit for controlling signal transmission of the transmission unit according to data exchanged with the control unit of the at least one of the other transmission units and/or the external command unit. | 06-03-2010 |
20100172526 | METHOD FOR CONTROLLING A TRANSMISSION SYSTEM AS WELL AS A TRANSMISSION SYSTEM - A transmission system and a method for controlling the transmission system comprising at least one interface unit and at least one adjustable device are disclosed. The method includes configuring the at least one interface unit according to interface configuration parameters, and enabling the at least one interface unit according to the interface configuration parameters. The method can also include transmitting device configuration parameters from the at least one interface unit to at least one of the adjustable devices, configuring the at least one adjustable device according to the device configuration parameters, and enabling the at least one adjustable device according to the device configuration parameters in order to transmit data via the second link. | 07-08-2010 |
20100195836 | WIRELESS COMMUNICATION SYSTEM AND METHOD - A communication system, comprising: a transmission unit comprising at least two microphones, with a separate audio signals channel for each microphone, a first ear unit and, a second ear unit worn at the each side of the user's head, each ear unit comprising a receiver unit; the transmission unit comprising means for transmitting at least a first channel and a second channel of the audio signals to the first and second ear unit, at least one of the receiver units being capable of receiving the at least first and second audio signal channel, at least one of the ear units comprising audio signal processing means for generating processed audio signals received via the at least first and second audio signal channel, with the first ear unit and the second ear unit comprising means for stimulating the user's hearing at the right ear and the left ear, accordingly. | 08-05-2010 |
20100278365 | METHOD AND SYSTEM FOR WIRELESS HEARING ASSISTANCE - A method for providing hearing assistance to a user, comprising capturing audio signals by a microphone arrangement; measuring at least one mechanical parameter; selecting an audio signal processing scheme according to the measured at least one mechanical parameter; processing, by a signal processing unit, the captured audio signals according to the selected audio signal processing scheme; transmitting the processed audio signals to stimulating means worn at or in at least one of the user's ears via a wireless audio link; and stimulating the user's hearing by said stimulating means according to the processed audio signals. | 11-04-2010 |
20100278366 | METHOD AND SYSTEM FOR WIRELESS HEARING ASSISTANCE - A method for providing hearing assistance to a user, comprising capturing audio signals by an internal microphone arrangement and supplying the captured audio signals a central signal processing unit; estimating whether a certain type of external audio signal supply device is connected to the audio signal processing unit in order to supply external audio signals to the central signal processing unit, and selecting an audio signal processing scheme according to the estimated type of external audio signal supply device; processing, the captured audio signals and the external audio signals according to the selected audio signal processing scheme; transmitting the processed audio signals to stimulating means worn at or in at least one of the user's ears via a wireless audio link; and stimulating the user's hearing by said stimulating means according to the processed audio signals. | 11-04-2010 |
20110243358 | SYSTEM FOR PICKING-UP A USER'S VOICE - A system for picking-up a user's voice, having an earpiece ( | 10-06-2011 |
20110286608 | EARPIECE COMMUNICATION SYSTEM - A communication system is provided having at least one earpiece ( | 11-24-2011 |
20120224732 | HEARING ASSISTANCE SYTEM AND METHOD - A system for providing hearing assistance to at least one user, having: at least one audio signal source ( | 09-06-2012 |
20120314890 | WIRELESS HEARING ASSISTANCE SYSTEM AND METHOD - A hearing assistance system having a plurality of transmission units, a microphone arrangement and a digital transmitter for transmitting audio signals as audio data packets via a wireless digital audio link; at least one user worn receiver unit; a relay unit with a mixing unit for producing a mixed audio signal from audio signals received and at least one digital transceiver for receiving audio signals from the transmission units via the digital audio link and for transmitting the mixed audio signal via the wireless digital audio link as audio data packets to a digital receiver of the receiver unit(s) for stimulating the hearing of the user(s) according to audio signals supplied from the receiver unit, the relay unit and each transmission unit transmitting each audio data packet in at least one allocated separate slot of a TDMA frame at a different frequency according to a frequency hopping sequence. | 12-13-2012 |
20130243210 | METHOD FOR TESTING A HEARING DEVICE AS WELL AS AN ARRANGEMENT FOR TESTING A HEARING DEVICE - A method for testing a hearing device ( | 09-19-2013 |
20140341382 | METHOD FOR MONITORING USAGE OF A HEARING DEVICE - Monitoring usage of a hearing device includes: c) checking whether a message has been received within a time period (dt) shorter than a pre-defined time period (Dt) via a long-distance communication network in a remote device; and d) generating usage status data dependent on the result of the checking addressed in step c). The usage status data are indicative of the usage of the hearing device, indicating “use” if the time period (dt) is smaller than or equal to the pre-defined time period (Dt) and indicating “non-use” if the time period (dt) is larger than the pre-defined time period (Dt). The message includes identification data for identifying the hearing device or a user of said hearing device. The remote device is located remote from the hearing device and connected to the long-distance communication network. The time period (dt) starts from a start event. | 11-20-2014 |